Job Candidates

Mijeong Baek — Mass political behavior, the media, election campaigns, and comparative political communication systems

Jonghoon Eun — American National Institutions (the Presidency, Congress, the Federal Courts), Elections & Campaigns, Public Policy, Spatial Models of Politics, Political Methodology

Laura Field — Moral and political psychology, human agency, philosophic autobiography, the philosophic foundations (ancient and modern) of the social sciences, the jurisprudence of cultural protections (language and religious protections), multiculturalism, free speech, the politics of expertise, literature and politics

Austin Hart — Campaigns and elections in comparative perspective, political communications, comparative political economy, research methods

Aaron Herold — Early modern liberal political thought and its critics, the relationship between liberalism and religion, the problem of political theology, and the intersections between political theory and international relations

Stephanie Holmsten — Comparative politics, democratization, electoral institutions, race and gender, international organizations

Taofang Huang — American Politics, Political Behavior, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Campaigns and Elections, Political Parties, and Research Methods

Jacqueline Hunsicker — Constitutional development (domestic and foreign), constitutional change, rule of law, American founding, Niccolò Machiavelli, ancient and modern political thought

Matthew Johnson — Latin American Politics, Politics of the Developing World, The Resource Curse, Comparative and International Political Economy, Political Institutions, and International Relations

Joel Parker — Democratic theory, political equality, theories of representation, deliberative democracy, constitutional development, American jurisprudence, political legitimacy, and random selection

Jerod Patterson — Public opinion, public policy, political behavior, survey research, religion and politics

Arthur Shuster — Classical conception of justice, philosophy of punishment, origins of modern political thought, theoretical tensions within liberalism, American constitutionalism, and morality and the passions

L. Matthew Vandenbroek — American politics, Quantitative and experimental methods in political science, Political psychology, Voting behavior, Emotions, Cognitive appraisal theory, Youth turnout, Racial priming, Political communication, Bayesian statistics

Shinya Wakao — Political Economy, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Political Parties, Interest Groups, Public Policy, Political Methodology

Matthew Wright — The history of political thought; natural law ethical and political theory; constitutional law and jurisprudence; the intersection of American constitutionalism, political theory, and normative jurisprudence.

Kristin Wylie — Political institutions (parties and party systems, electoral systems), Latin American politics, representation, development, political economy, research methods, gender politics, participation